What ever became of the DOJ lawsuit against Kipp?
In September 2012, the Wisconsin DOJ filed a lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation. It is still unresolved. Why? Because it was always intended as a tool to protect Kipp from…
Kipp PCBs continue to pollute area along Isthmus bike path, even after multiple remediations
Kipp drain pipe carries toxic PCBs to city rain garden near bike path , STEVEN VERBURG sverburg@madison.com The company expects to find a solution soon, but critics say government regulators…
DNR becoming “Chamber of Commerce” instead of regulator?
Photo: Cathy Stepp, head of WI DNR (aka Chamber of Commerce?) When Scott Walker appointed Cathy Stepp in 2011 to head the Wisconsin DNR, he said he wanted someone with…
Cathy Stepp “fights for DNR behind the scenes”?
What does this mean? Read article by Wisconsin State Journal’s Steve Verburg here.
Wisconsin DNR not following its own rules
This really isn’t a surprise but it’s still very disturbing. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL JUNE 3, 2016 WATER ENFORCEMENT | DNR DISREGARDING OWN RULES State audit finds DNR ignoring own rules…
Madison-Kipp’s pollution cleanup is nowhere near complete: Part I–Groundwater
Photo: Toxic permanganate discharge from Kipp groundwater extraction and treatment system (GETS) on Aug. 9, 2015 ***** On December 20 2015 the Wisconsin State Journal published a front page article…
Air Pollution
Dioxins
Environmental Justice
Goodman Community Center
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Toxins
Wisconsin DNR
Worker health and safety
Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO
Madison-Kipp Corp President/CEO Tony Koblinski responded to our post regarding the EPA consent decree for his company’s Clean Air Act violations. Here is our response: Dear Mr. Koblinski: We offer…
Where does the raingarden pipe originate? (Kipp Question # 3896? We’ve lost count…)
At long last, one MEJO question (unlike most we have asked, which remain unanswered) has been answered!! Storm water runoff entering the pipe that empties into the raingarden originates at…
According to DNR’s strange math, Kipp’s PCE plume has reached or passed Well 8, but has not made it to Lake Monona…What?
Recent updates from DNR and PHMDC (see most recent one here) on the ongoing Kipp pollution nightmare are full of careless errors, misleading statements, and critical omissions. Citizens deserve better…
More Unanswered Kipp Questions: Was KLS Lubriquip at the Goodman site in the Past?
Madison-Kipp Corporation originated as Kipp Lubricator Company in 1898. Kipp’s lubricator operations were later called Kipp Lubricator Systems (KLS), KLS International, or KLS Lubriquip at different times. The lubricator division…
How Far North is the Kipp Plume? Kipp Doesn’t Want The Public to Know…
At a March 19, 2014 community presentation, Madison-Kipp Corporation’s CEO Tony Koblinski presented Kipp pollution maps and invited citizens to view them after his talk, noting that “when you get…
So Sorry, DNR! Here’s the full transcript of the Jan. 29 2014 MEJO-DNR meeting
(MEJO President, Dr. Maria Powell) In a meeting on March 21st, two DNR managers and two DNR lawyers scolded MEJO President, Dr. Maria Powell, for audiotaping the January 29 meeting…
Air Pollution
Madison Water Utility
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Public Participation
Soil contamination
Toxins
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
“Mother Nature, though wounded, begins to take care of it,” says polluter
At a March 19 public presentation, the president of Madison-Kipp Corporation described various pollution remediation actions that the aluminum parts manufacturer is belatedly being forced to do by the Wisconsin…
Kipp Offers Water Utility Some Advice: Run Olbrich Well 24/7!
In a February 26, 2014 email Madison-Kipp Corporation advised the Madison Water Utility to pump the Olbrich Well (Well 8) full-time, after the Water Utility Board asked for assurance from…
20,000 ppm PCBs under Kipp? No Worries ! “Just Ordinary Dirt,” says Kipp CEO
(Kipp’s CEO, Tony Koblinski, in Kipp’s corporate offices, photo from Madison.com) In a June 19, 2013 letter to the Wisconsin DNR (first obtained by MEJO in January, 2014), the U.S.…